Secretary Penny Pritzker to Lead High-Level U.S. Business Delegation to Poland and Turkey

U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will lead a high-level delegation of
America’s top CEOs on an economic fact-finding mission next week to Poland and
Turkey. Secretary Pritzker and the CEOs, all of whom are members of the President’s Export Council (PEC) will use the
trip to identify immediate and long-term opportunities to increase trade and
investment between the U.S. and Poland and the U.S. and Turkey, two
high-potential, fast-growing markets. Through greater understanding of these
markets, the Department of Commerce and the President’s Export Council can help
U.S. companies gain better access to Poland and Turkey, so they can sell more
of their goods and services abroad and support jobs here at home.

Following
this trip, the PEC CEOs joining the mission will apply their commercial
expertise to produce a report for President Obama, which will recommend actions
the U.S. government can take to address challenges and increase trade and
investment between the U.S. and Poland, and the U.S. and Turkey

Just
prior to the PEC mission, Secretary Pritzker will visit Kyiv, Ukraine. Secretary
Pritzker's visit to Ukraine was announced by President Obama
during Ukrainian President Poroshenko’s visit to Washington, D.C. last
week. Secretary Pritzker, whose family
comes from Ukraine, will use her time there to discuss with Ukrainian
government and business leaders the reforms necessary to improve their business climate, attract private capital, expand
opportunity, and strengthen the economy for greater investment and growth. She
will also explore potential opportunities for additional commercial cooperation
between the U.S. and Ukraine.

After
her stop in the Ukraine, Secretary Pritzker will join the eight PEC members and
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Stefan M. Selig in Warsaw,
where they will meet with Polish government officials and business leaders and gather
insight on opportunities and challenges facing U.S. companies in each
respective market. Following the stop in Warsaw, the group will continue on to
Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.

The PEC members comprising the delegation of
the first PEC fact-finding mission of the Administration are:

Also participating in the mission are senior
executives from the following companies, whose CEOs are also PEC members:

IBM

Boeing

eBay
Inc.

AES
Corporation (Turkey)

Pfizer
Inc.

Magno
International

Dow
Chemical (Turkey)

United
Association

Serving
as the principal national advisory committee on international trade, the PEC
was established in 1973 and advises the President on government policies and
programs that affect U.S. trade performance; promotes export expansion; and
provides a forum for discussing and resolving trade-related problems among the
business, industrial, agricultural, labor, and government sectors.

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